Career
He had just realised fame in the world music circuit through his appearances at WOMAD in the United States of America and the United Kingdom in 1999 before he died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome less than two months after his performance at Womad"s Reading festival, aged only 40. Before he died, he recorded an album with Womad, called Olugendo. He was discovered in the streets of Kampala, Uganda"s capital, playing on a guitar he had made himself out of scrap.
